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* Release Notes - SystemML - Version SystemML 1.1 New Capabilities/Features - Dense matrix blocks >16GB, and operations - Support bitwise operators not, and, or, xor, & LShift, Rshift - Additional ParFor result aggregation operations - UDFs callable in expressions - zero rws/columns matrices - Extended Caffe2DML and Keras2DML APIs New Builtin Functions - ifelse() Performance Improvements - Ultra-sparse operations Internals - Single-precision support for native conv2d and mm operations. - Consolidate replicated compilation chain - Generalize Binary Operations to (vector, matrix) Operands - Use common thread pool Bug Fixes - in APIs, performance bugs, optimizer, runtime, GPU backend, Spark backend. Experimental - Codegen Deprecate - Support for Spark 2.1/2.2 (make switch to newer ANTLR version) Detailed JIRA release notes are here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12342282&styleName=Text&projectId=12319522&Create=Create&atl_token=A5KQ-2QAV-T4JA-FDED%7C2e97f76f75a466564dba2a7d0bec5ca06bffd66e%7Clout Regards, Berthold Reinwald IBM Almaden Research Center office: (408) 927 2208; T/L: 457 2208 e-mail: reinw...@us.ibm.com